On June 16, 1772, Thos. Haslen [?] signed this receipt for six pounds proclamation money from Charles Roach, a year’s rent for land Roach leased from “the Trustees of School House.” No acreage or location is given for the leased land, and no witnesses signed.
The plat on the back shows two tracts on Swift Creek: Charles Roach, 75 acres, and Thomas Swaffer, 90 acres, with “The Dividing Line between Swaffer & Roach” drawn across Thomas Swaffer’s patent of 23 May 1757. The writer’s own words are kept as written below.
Receipt from Thomas Haslen to Charles Roach for school land rent, with plat of the Swafford–Roach line – 1772
Transcription notes: spelling, capitalization and punctuation follow the original. Words in [square brackets] are editorial notes; [?] marks an uncertain reading and [illegible] marks words that could not be read.
Recd June 16th 1772 from Charles
Roach Six Pounds Proc Money
being for one Years Rent of
Land he Leased from the Trustees
of School House
Thos Haslen [?]
[On the back, a plat:]
[Labels on the plat:] Charles Roach 75 Acres
Thomas Swaffer 90 Acres
Swifts Creek
[Courses written along the lines are faint; those that can be read include:] So 65 Wt 120 po
N 32 Et 110 po [?]
References Vizt
[torn] C.D.E.F. Thomas Swaffers Patent Dated 23d May 1757.
The Dividing Line between Swaffer & Roach —
About the original
The receipt is on one side of a single torn sheet. The plat and its “References” are on the other side.
A docket written sideways on the receipt side reads “Thomas Swaffer Plot of Land.” A second docket on the back reads “Plat of Land.”
The plat shows Swift Creek and two tracts, lettered A to F, divided by a dotted line. Some of the courses and letters along the lines are too faint to read with confidence and are not transcribed. A column of figures in the margin, apparently calculations of acreage, is also not transcribed.
“Proc Money” means proclamation money, a colonial North Carolina money of account.
Source: Thomas Haslen receipt to Charles Roach, 16 June 1772. Roach Family Papers (#346), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, Box 1, Folder c (Land Records, 1728–1886). Collection guide. Digitized folder: ECU Digital Collections, 0346-b1-fc.
Images courtesy of East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University. View this item in ECU Digital Collections.
Part of the Roach Family Papers collection on East Carolina Roots.
